Salt marshes as archives of recent relative sea level change in West Greenland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 17-18, 2009, Pages 1750-1761

  Woodroffe, S A ^a   Long, A J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT OBSERVATION; GREENLAND; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGH PRECISION; ICE SHEET; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SALT MARSHES; SEDIMENT PROFILES; TIDE LEVELS; WEST GREENLAND;

LINEARIZATION; SEA LEVEL;

WETLANDS;

DATA ACQUISITION; DIATOM; ERROR ANALYSIS; ICE SHEET; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TIDAL MODELING; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 67650790132     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.02.009     Document Type: Article

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